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Richard Dawkins is responding to what he called the "stirring towards atheism" in some Islamic countries with a programme to make free downloads of his books available in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian.
The scientist and atheist said he was "greatly encouraged" to learn that the unofficial Arabic pdf of the book had been downloaded 13m times. Dawkins writes in The God Delusion about his wish that the "open-minded people" who read it will "break free of the vice of religion altogether". It has sold 3.3m copies worldwide since it was published in 2006 – far fewer than the number of Arabic copies that Dawkins believes to have been downloaded illegally.
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
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(Score: 2) by Hartree on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:58PM (3 children)
I'm reminded that the Balkans have been killing each other over religion (and just about everything else) for longer than my country has existed.
Certainly hasn't solved the problem.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 26 2018, @01:33AM
For those who don't know the history of the Balkans, they threw off the Ottoman yoke by being more depraved than the Muslim rulers. Vlad the Impaler, for instance, impaled 20,000 of his own men, women, and children along the path of the oncoming Ottoman army, and the Turks were so appalled that they turned around and went home.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 26 2018, @11:04AM (1 child)
I'm reminded that Americans are soft, living in a protected land, where Muslims don't routinely march over their dead children and neighbors. Western Europe has also gotten pretty soft - it's been centuries since the Muslims marched over their dead bodies. Maybe that was Hitler's real purpose in life. Distract his fellow Europeans, so they forget how horrible Islam is.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Monday March 26 2018, @04:07PM
I'm reminded of many previous groups blathering about "the harsh realities" that justify places like Sarajevo, Prijedor and the camp at Omarska.
Don't worry, I also know about Orahovac and others committed just as gleefully by the KLA, etc.
And, yes, I stand guilty of being a "soft American" who knows nothing about reality (being a physics type, I have a different idea of what that means, but regardless I, like all humans, am profoundly ignorant about reality). However, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
You're not alone in that sort of thinking. Just go ask the Indians about the Pakistanis and vice verse. Amazing that PhD level scholars can fall back to that base level of base human visceral hatred. (A quote from one of them: "Kyle, you don't understand what low people the Pakistanis are and you can't unless you were there." And yes, Kyle is my RL first name, and this was someone that I liked and otherwise thought a pretty good person.)